Strasburg Rail Road

Chartered in 1832, America’s oldest continuously operating railroad still steams through Lancaster County’s Amish farmland.

Chartered in 1832 and never abandoned, the Strasburg Rail Road hauled milk, coal and lumber for over a century before reinventing itself as a steam railroad in 1958: making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the western hemisphere. Heavy Baldwin and Canadian-built locomotives now walk wooden coaches across Amish farmland to Paradise, exchanging waves with horse-drawn buggies at the crossings. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania sits directly across the road from the depot.

Stations

1. 3 kmCherry Crest Adventure Farm
2. 3 kmGroff's Grove
3. 5 kmParadise

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

Along the way

• East Strasburg wooden depot
• Amish farms and buggy crossings
• Groff’s Grove picnic stop
• Leaman Place Junction at Paradise
• Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7592251 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: Strasburg Rail Road — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Strasburg Rail Road?

The Strasburg Rail Road runs 7 km from Strasburg to Paradise.

How long does the Strasburg Rail Road take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 25 min for the 7 km. That is an average of 17 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 24 km/h.

Who runs the Strasburg Rail Road?

Strasburg Rail Road, with Baldwin & CN steam, wooden coaches.

How old is the Strasburg Rail Road?

The line has been in service since 1832. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

How often does the Strasburg Rail Road run?

Daily Apr–Nov, select winter days.

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